Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Chinese Democracy will be one CD.

To be released in "the fall...late fall...definitely this year."

Brian May played on CITR demo, may not be on the finished CD.

There is no reunion.

Brain is still on drums.

There is a new, unannounced 3rd guitarist.

(the other thread is pretty much a running commentary of the entire show, pre- and post Axl - please add the straight-up info. from Axl here to sum up what was said)

Axl felt pressured to do something in 2002. He won't speak of why the tour ended.

Bucket is not in the band and he was just being Bucket.

The 3rd guitarist has nothing to do with the past.

No Special Show With The Old Line-Up

Axl drinks Ensure.  ;D

US Tour in the Fall.

Axl does a mean Gene Simmons impersonation.

Tommy Stinson is in the band

Chinese Democracy will be one album.

Two albums of material have been recorded.  A third is 1/2 completed. (Anyone know how to clarify this?)



U.Y.I. involved "Slash trying to take control of the band, Izzy in his own drug world," and all three of them fighting over completing each other's material.

Brain was in a band back in the day called "Ted Zeppelin" that played Ted Nugent and Led Zeppelin songs.

No joke.

.......and Axl used to pull up to people waiting at bus stops and blast "Dr. Love" by Kiss.

.......they are still deciding which songs will be on the first and second cds.? Axl, "We keep bouncing back and forth".

.......they were working on a new song not yet recorded while rehearsing in New York.

.......Axl seemed aggravated about the leaked demos and said that he has not listened to them.

.......Axl lived in China for 3 months, years ago.

Izzy might show up at the gigs! Axl was hanging out with him recently.

i think we learned that axl has the personality to still make it big today, those stories they told were awesome, it would be great to hear that kind of live unexpected style interview again, but this was just awesome, i hope the future plans about CD and the tour actually happen

Axl is the hugest W.A.S.P. fan I've ever heard.

Nightrain and Madagascar are on the setlist.

funny to hear axl's a WASP fun when years ago he hated them.

Mike Piazza appologized for the IRS cd. :P

Axl read the forums
Axl knows what we talk  here , ho play that solo etc and he didin t not heard the leaks .

Since Axl didn't hear the leaks, we won't necessarily hear these songs in the shows.

Let's hope we get something more than the 2002 setlist.

I can't see a conection here. He only said he didn't hear the leaks, because they are only old demos. This doesn't mean they will not play some of them in the new gigs.

We learned that Sebastian punched Izzy's brother for calling him a homo. Great stuff!

But most importantly, as stated above, we will (hopefully, knock on wood) see Chinese Democracy this fall.  :drool:

That's the one thing I've been wanting to hear. Axl's own words regarding a release date. I hope it's the real deal this time around.

Uhm, in 2001 Axl told us the album were going to be released in the summer of 2001.

I'm just listening to part 3.

"Izzy may show up to some of the shows". With his tone of voice that definitely sounds like Izzy is in the band for at least a few of the shows.

On a lesser note.. dont think Earl will be working with Axl cos he said "remember Earl the security guy I had".

PROOF THAT THERE WILL BE A UK TOUR (Well sorta  :peace:)

Axl said about the European tour "Yeah about 30 something shows there" currently there are only about 22 shows announced, now if there are doing the 9 or so UK dates then that would make more sence about what Axl said.

Soooo hope that is true. Can't wait for the Wembley Arena show. Pre-sale for the board fans hopefully!!

The new guitarist is not Dizzy.

Elton John screamed at axl proclaiming that he was a Gay Man!

I liked the story about Axl going to the Pleasure Chest with Earl  :hihi:

And Jack White (?) chopping a fly in half and selling it to some Afghan guys to score some more coke

ALL I WANT TO KNOW IS: ...has the new guitarist joined Gn'R for live shows only, or is he in the band to help write new material and most important or all, has the new guitartist performed on CD. Most important of all, has Buckethead's material remained in tact on CD, i really hope so. There's only 6 months left of this year so soon is da word!
 :beer:

Also Baz didn't know Wes was deceased even though he died about 9 year ago.

i dont think he meant in the band.   He meant he might make an appearance, proly for a song or two kinda thing.  And sounds like it depends on if Izzy decides to show up.

Yep I suggested a few days ago that Izzy might appear for one song and have a jam. After all these years I think Izzy is cool to do this with Axl. Would be cool if he came on for a song!

Let's hope. It would be a great news  : ok:

i wouldn't bet money on it but it would fucking rock if that happened, though the new band is i'm most excited about seeing! :peace: good times to be a gnr fan! ;D

I'm a bit dissapointed that Chinese Democracy will only be 1 CD. That rumored 3 CD set would have been amazing, but I mean, I'm not going to complain, it's Chinese fucking Democracy and it may finally be coming out.

"not decided", "still debatable", "I don't know if his works will be on it"... awww, it's a bit of a letdown.  I thought at least the main work is done.  :(

Who was he talking about?? Who is the guy behing "his works"?

Brian May.

Elton: I'M A GAY MAN!
Axl: Cool. So when we hit the bridge...

 :rofl:

"The messed up part of that is ... you remember Earl, the security guy? Okay. So, Earl's this big, huge black guy - and we went  to the "Pleasure Chest" to buy the bondage gear for the video ... but .. the guys behind the counter just see  me with that huge giant black guy and they just think and they're looking at me and think "Yeah you're one of us! It's cool! You rock, dude!"  :rofl:

Did anyone understand - better than I did, at least - how Democracy will be one CD, yet they're finishing the third CD of material?

1 CD released every year over the next 3 years.

Axl mow thinks UYI videos are corny!!!!!!!!!!!!

Too bad they didn't ask if buckethead will remain on chinese democracy...unless I missed it.

im assuming that he means chinese democracy will be one cd.

then he will release another album in a year or so of more material and itll probably be called something else (maybe this will be where he uses some of those other rumoured album titles like 2000 intentions).

then after all the hoopla is over with that second one he will but out another new album of material.

i dont know why people keep just assuming it will all be chinese democracy.

He likes Priest better than Maiden, but prefers Maiden's first album. (I truly didn't like this part)

Axl's first choice for the '91 tour was N.W.A..  (was this already known?).  When that didn't happen, Skid Row was called in.

We also learned to have a audio recorder handy at all times while listing to the Eddie Trunk show.. Hint Hint  ;) someone better get the last 15 minutes durring the midweek replay.

Ancient news.? The caviar story was a repeat, too.? So was Axl's interest in W.A.S.P.? :)

We learned that Axl had a different idea for the Sweet Child video but it was stopped by the record company (He said he was being serious but he can't have been!).

I dont like the fact that they rehearsed Nightrain and then was getting ready to play Paradise City to finish up.
Maybe they are going to play the same setlist as they did in 2002? But then again its ok if  they put some new song in there too :peace:

the thing im most excited about is Izzy possibly making some apperances. for as long as ive been a fan i thought only 1 thing was certin: Izzy would never have anything to do with Axl again. since this possibility exsist, it is my opinion that a original reunion is possible one day in the FAR future. put only POSSIBLE and not PROBABLE.

anyway, im just overwhelmed to know Axls in an interview again. i hope i get to hear it if someone records it. and Bach rules too!!! :peace:

Bach seemed realy annoying, he was constantly blabbing and laughing. I was thanking god everytime he shutted up for a second :rant:

no way, Bas is great.  Best line is when Axl quotes him:

"DUUUUUDE Why you bein' such a DIIIICKKK"

I thought the same thing. I mean him and the other people in the room were agreeing with everything Axl said, giving him his space and everything, which was cool, but you could tell they were star struck.

As for Bach? heh, you gotta get your name out it lights some how right?

It's funny how Axl just interupted everything that Baz said. LAWL

Yeah, I don't get everyone bitching about Sebastian, he was hilarious.

You shouldn't expect Axl to just walk in there and talk for an hour and a half straight about what he's been doing the past 10 years. Obviously there has to be a couple of interesting personalities in there to keep things moving, for the sake of entertaining radio...

anyways I enjoyed listening to this. some funny stories.
If anyone annoyed me, it'd be Eddie, but overall a good show.

here's what I learned:

Axl is a damn funny guy. great sense of humour and seems like a generally nice guy!
He seems to be serious about touring and releasing an album this year.
I also learned lots of awesome stories about the old days, hilarious stuff ;D
David Lee Roth refusing Bret Michaels to sit down with DLR, Bach and Axl was maybe my favourite one! :hihi:

NO, no. :no:


No it's not ok. They have to sprinkle a few new songs here and there. I don't even care if an album will only come out in a year or two.

Well, be happy about Baz being there, he's the only reason why Axl showed up there in the first place ;)

Plus Bach didn't know that West Arkeen was dead. Funniest exchange of the night.

Yeah Baz is a legend, thats just the way he is! Also notice how at the rehearsals they were doing nightrain and then going to do paradise city before Axl left for the station........ same order as the 2002 tour, probably a coincidence but what the hell, thought i should bring it up.

I would have loved to have been in NY last night, whatever bar/club they were in it must have been awsome!

Jonx

Bach was really hyper.
One would easily say he wasn't 100% sober.

Does'nt he smoke like an ounce of weed a day or something?

You'd think he'd be some kind of mellow yellow.

And the most awkward, I thought...

Not to reference Poison again - Bret Michaels was enough - but Bach's hyper-ramblings reminded me of C.C. DeVille from the VH1 Behind the Music - that crazy, scratchy stream-of-consciousness rambling thing he was doing...

Just me, I'm sure.

Axl wasnt into smoking pot when he was a kid.

Chris Jericho is still waiting for his autograph ;D

Axl spent 800 dollars on caviar!

Axl gets uncomfortable when someone start kissing his ass.

He was fine listening to everyone tell their GnR stories but when Piazza got on and started with the "We love you", " You're the best" stuff, it sounded to me that Axl was a bit uncomfortable listening to that. I would keep that in mind in case anyone gets lucky and runs into him in the city. :peace:

Axl's original concept for the SCOM video was for a drug mule mother disquising heroin as her infant  :rofl:

I don't think Axl was too keen on taking callers either.. how quick was he to say 'ahh Ace of Spades!' when Trunk suggested it  :hihi:

We learned that Axl doesn't want to do Broadway, thank god.

Sebastian is supposed to be sober now... during the taping of his "supergroup" he was yelled at by Ted Nugent and for drinking and was supposed to quit drinking and smoking on the show... thats what i heard...

Very true.........Ted is very strict on the no booze/drugs rule.  I mean when you're shooting flaming arrows on stage in front of a few thousand people, probably not the best thing to be fucked up.  But yeah, I worked security for him in 2001...kind of a hyper fellow, but it was cool to meet him.  I can see him keeping the other guys in check.

i think that is just what sebastian is like. i've never seen an interview of his when he was any different. he's a little crazy and his personality is larger than life, but that's what makes him Bas.  : ok:

Wasn't Chris Jerhico trash talking GNR a few months ago?

I just remember him saying "Thanks for the memories" from another thread.

He was urging Axl to put out CD I believe.

y2j still wants axl's autograph after axl skated away on a skateboard to the stage in winnipeg


rock n' roll

i learnt 3 things!

thats one of the longest interview's Axl has ever done, even in appetite days

He's in good spirts and i think this will go well for the tour!

the guy is happing doing it this way, with the new band etc. he should be left alone to do this.

lets all sit back and enjoy the shows!!!!!!!!

although alot of positives seem to have come from this, in the back of my mind I'm still disappointed with what to me, seems like a very non-committal approach to releasing the album.

They're still working on new songs that have yet to be recorded? The tracklist doesn't seem remotely close to finalisation? A vague promise of fall, or late fall?

It appears to me, that CD is still some way away

Hey Jimmy, I thought I was the only one who was disappointed in that. Sure, this is a fantastic interview, laughed my ass off and I'm really glad to have heard it, but a 'fall' release date with yeah, we're still working on songs (most of them have finished lyrics  :no:) couldn't really make me smile. I have this eerie feeling that fall might turn into Christmas, Christmas might turn into 'maybe March', next summer.... which is unlike me, cause I was very optimistic about a summer 06 release till I heard this.

At least we'll have a tour and Axl sounded really psyched about that. There' s some comfort  : ok:

I know with all the crap that happened over the last 10 years or so that comment about working on new songs could cause some concern, but its really nothing out of the ordinary. Just because there are new songs being worked on doesnt mean they are songs that will hold up Chinese Democracy. Its most likely something that will be put aside until they go back into the studio whenever the tour is done.

I'm trying to be optimistic about this.

Just happy that everyone besides bh is still in the band my favorite part of it was THERE WILL BE NO REUNION!! And no old memeber will replace bh so no more talking about them in the gnr section.

does any1 gve me the link for the full interview plz? cos i cant find it anywhere... thanks ;)

On the plus side, Axl himself said "fall...late fall."  That's as firm a time frame from an official source as we've had yet, and I'm fine with it.  The down side, as you say, is the mention of all the songs still being worked on.  Given the heavy touring, I can't see how much time can be dedicated to finishing up the record if in fact the fall release date will hold up.  Still, I'm very hopeful, as always.

What was no doubt a surprise to us all though was when Axl mentioned the band's state of mind during the Use Your Illusion records...

"Slash wanted to take over the band....Izzy was in his drugged out little world....they'd both be fighting back and forth about whose songs would get done or not get done, and all I knew was that no one's songs were going to get done if mine didn't get done..."

Already by the early 90's it sounds like the pressures of fame, relevance and stardom were under the skin of Gn'R... :peace:

We learnt that Eddie Trunk is a total tool.

We also learnt that the word "dude" was used WAY too much.

Dont forget, "Like" and "You know" also.

I'm typing up the transcript to part 2 now, and I'm at the point where I'm just leaving that shit out.

;D what about "and", "and", "and"? "You know, like, and..." ;D

One word: SPLENDA!  :o ;D

Man, listening to that interview was like everyone of us aging rockers. Too many fish stories, albeit very hazy. God knows I sound the same with my friends after a few drinks.  :beer:

For the people on this list that are under 21-don't fight it, you are all gonna sound and act like that when you hit mid 30s and after that.

I never heard about Splenda before I transcripted this thing...lol I had to Google it to make sure I heard right. I was like: "WTF?" lol

How come? Did I miss something?

I know :rant:

Who knew after all these years that Britney Spears was actually paying tribute to Axl and Sebastian?

Axl is working on songs for the "3rd" Album right?

We learnt that you can trade half a fly for a whole shit load of coke lol.  And Axl goes to a chiropractor.

later on baz says we were "snorting alot of splenda" and some says you just ruined it or gave it away what splenda is....

I think it was thier code word they used for coke... kind of like the crue called it "krell"... Gnr and co must have called it "splenda"

Yeah it is great news as a GNR fan to know we'll never hear Coma live again *extreme sarcasm*

Wait...at what part did he say Coma will never be played live again, I missed that?

I loved the interview....because it sounded like a bunch of US in the room with Axl.  They asked most of the questions we would have.

We learned that EVERYBODY is startstruck by Axl.

:)

Yeah, seriously...Eddie Trunk is the man.  If it wasn't for his show we wouldn't have had that awesome experience Friday night.

Pilferk, I was kind of suprised by that as well. Trunk and Piazza sounded like they were about to shit their pants. Axl did have a good vibe about him and sounds like he is pretty happy. These shows will be great. :beer:

Actually, you should be thanking Seb Bach for that, not Eddie.

Eddie got lucky and should be thanking God that Axl was in a good mood, otherwise the events of 2003 may not have been brushed aside so easily.

Very true...Baz made it happen, and Eddie is pretty lucky that Axl was forgiving about what happened.  But that being said, if Eddie didn't have Baz on it still wouldn't have happened.  Eddie's a good dude though, and he's a genuine person and fan of music.  His show is great every week, and I didn't appreciate him being referred to as a tool.  He's a helluva radio show host and a good guy too.

I think Axl realizes they werent intentionally tryin to harm him, they just got excited and felt the world Needed to hear the song.

I still wonder how Piazza got a hold of that in the first place?

Thats the million dollar question. Maybe it was the pizza guy  :hihi:

All radio people are tools. It's a scientific fact. My heart stopped when Shannon Hoon was brought up, was hoping they would elaborate a little more on him, but at least he was mentioned. Shannon Hoon is & always will be my favorite.

it was mailed to him.

Your logic is flawless.  Care to elaborate?

And Eddie is very grateful to Bach for that too, as he describes in his blog. ? As far as Axl being kind to him, he seems overly grateful for that, as well he should. ?Axl was more than generous in regards to the leaks and the debacle of 2003.

You know, for the past week I've been saying to myself "I can't believe I'm actually going on the 12th...the flight, taking off work, the hotel. ?Can I really afford to do that?" ?That interview was so cool, and it was so good to hear Axl again, and - even better - hear him as a "regular guy" rather than this isolated, tempermental, megalomanical genius that everybody writes about - that my question is now "how I can I afford to *not* go?" ?Hope to meet some of you on the 12th.

So another thing I learned - eccentricities aside, Axl sounds like a grounded, level-headed, fun guy who's ready to get back in the ring on his own terms.

Axl mailed it to him?

Dont know if this has been mentioned but it sounds to me, that the finished versions have a shot at not sounding like the demos we heard.

that worries me cause we have gotten so use to them its gonna be weird hearing them completely different.

You're so right.  I'm now very attached to the version of "Better" I've been hearning.  Anything drastically different won't sound "right" to me.  Explains why Axl might not be happy about the leaks, yes?

no, i think it was a fan.

Thats exactly right.

For instance The Blues at RIR3.

To me this version is perfect whereas the 2002 versions bore the living hell out of me.

I cant imagine Better without Buckets parts, cause his parts kick fuckin ass.

thats good atleast we'll hear something "new"  :P

That's why I never listened to them..


We learned that Axl still got that deep, sexy voice  :drool:

That's one of the reasons why I've only listened to the leaked tracks only a few times.  I don't want to get too attached and then be dissapointed if I don't like the actual album versions as much.

I just was curious and its great to know Axl still has it and that CD will be everything I hoped it would be and more.

That's the complete opposite to me, imo the 2002 versions of The Blues are better.

Axl didnt say anything about them filming a music video at hammerstein? :no:
that would be cool tho.

bax and slash love splenda : ok: :rofl: :yes:

bas

That's why I never listened to them..


We learned that Axl still got that deep, sexy voice? :drool:




i second that... :drool: i don't know how many times I've listened to the show  :hihi: his voice drives me nut..so masculine , perfect ..i don't know..iam so glad to hear him again  :love:

baz

Bas

Bas, I owe you big time bro! Much more to come about this historic night as soon as I get some sleep and recover.

http://www.eddietrunk.com/blog.php

didn't they ask?

No, I don't think that's really a strong rumor right now.  I think its more something somebody thought of around here as a cool idea.

baz

I'm gonna listen to it more when the complete show is out  :drool: (come on Eddie!)
I KNOW!perfect is the word   :drool:
Yeah, me too, It's fuckin great to hear him again, and now I'm more excited about all the shows,just because of that  :beer:

Baz.

http://thefanlists.com/sebastian/

Jesus Christ do we really give a shit if its Bas or Baz???


Fuck call him Bach, 1 more letter.

baz

Botaxl you are a pretty funny guy  :hihi:


I posted that tongue-in-cheekly after you corrected the poster earlier.

Can't we just call him "that guy who phoned Axl Rose" considering that he does what else these days?

U guys are giving me a fuckin headache with that shit.

who cares if its bas or baz.


 I think a huge tale of the tape will come this weekend and that will be what time Axl comes on stage.

If he still pulls that 2 hour late shit, Im gonna be concerned.

it's baz

that makes 3 of us, girls!  :love:

We learned that Axl's a funny mother fucker with some great stories :rofl:

What did I learn? David Lee Roth is such Diiiiiiiiiiiiiick  :rofl:

We've also learned to respect each other in the forum - Axl could be among us...!  :o

Goddamn, Axl has the sexiest voice ever. I'm in love with it, be it when hes singing or talking.  :drool:

His "Oh this is house music" voice is funny stuff  : ok: